How do I delete a contact which is not in my contact list or anywhere else?

I need to delete contact information (email addresses and names) on my iPhone which keep coming up every time I type a remotely similar name in Mail, but isn't in my contact list.
I tried searching for the name and then the associated email address using the iPhone but came up with no result. I searched for the name and then the associated email address inside of my HP HDX-18t (Vista Ultimate 64bit) but came up with no result. I tried searching for the name and then the associated email address using the iPhone but came up with no result. I searched for the name and then the associated email address inside of my Yahoo account (using my Vista PC, not the iPhone) but came up with no result. I searched for the name and then the associated email address inside of all of my other email addresses and devices but came up with no result.
These names and the associated email addresses show up only in my iPhone and absolutely nowhere else. I tried Restoring my iPhone and that did not resolve the problem. Using the iPhone I tried going to Settings - General - Reset - Erase All Content and Settings. This did not solve the problem.
Every time I've ever sent an email to an email address and received a response from that email address that email address and name associated with the response has been stored someplace in the phone but no place else. This is a major pain because every time I try to send an email to one of my actual contacts I have to either type out their full name or flick through a stream of contacts which are not in any of my sources. This means I cannot send an email quickly (I'm using an iPhone so I should be used to a lack of speed, huh?) and am often lost in a sea of names and email addresses I cannot eliminate.
How do I get rid of this? I want all of the names and addresses which are not in any of my other locations gone! These are not even in my iPhone Contacts or even in the Sent email folders so there must be a way to delete them without their coming back!?!?!???!??!
Thanks all who answer with solutions which serve to solve the problem.
Message was edited by: monkeyman_stones
Message was edited by: monkeyman_stones
Message was edited by: monkeyman_stones
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Try logging into your Yahoo account from a computer, search out the contact you are trying to delete and manually correct or delete the bad contact.
The bad information might be hidden as a second address or other contact information (or misspelled) and not be showing up on the iphone but will pull up the address anyway.
I had one old address in a contact that kept pulling up each time i tried to email him. The new address was there, but the old address was what the phone kept showing. When I edited the contact info from my computer the old address went away, and the new address started poping up.

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